vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight

There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, and cloud technologies.

Pluralsight has a huge catalog with thousands of trainings covering not only IT, with software development, data, IT administration, virtualization or creative. But there are also courses for manufacturing and design or architecture and construction.

The vSphere 6 course has many lessons which covers every part of VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere 6 got more complex than vSphere 5, it's usuall as every vSphere release brings new features and functionalities. It's an evolution. The topics covered by Greg are part of the VCP6-DCV blueprint so it's a good alternative to existing VCP6-DCV study guides, books or videos that you're probably already using to pass the VCP6-DCV certification exam.

An overview of one lesson…. The video player works well, you have the sub-topics of each lesson on the right where the video plays on the left. It's possible to have it in full screen mode.

It might be interesting for folks who are not native English speaking, to put the speed to 0.8x or 0.5x in order to get Greg speak a bit slower … -:) On the down right there are the controls for sound, speed, preferences and full screen…

The offline viewing does not work on trials at Pluralsight, but the advanced plan trial allows testing assessments and excercise files. The offline mode allows to download training and learn offline with the Desktop App. There are also apps for mobile phones for IOS or Android.

vSphere 6 Data Center – Topics covered:

• vSphere 6 Data Center: Introduction
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Upgrade a vSphere Deployment
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Troubleshoot a vSphere Deployment
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Backup and Recover a vSphere Deployment
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Administer and Manage Virtual Machines
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Deploy and Consolidate a vSphere Datacenter
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Configure Availability Solutions
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Administer and Manage Resources
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Configure Advanced Storage
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Configure and Administer Security
• vSphere 6 Data Center: Configure Advanced Networking

If you're Beginner

I'd suggest going through a vSphere 6 Foundations course from David Davis:

• vSphere 6 Foundations: Administer Virtual Machines and vApps
• vSphere 6 Foundations: Configure vSphere Networking
• vSphere 6 Foundations: Configure vSphere Storage
• vSphere 6 Foundations: Install and Configure vCenter and ESXi

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Good to know if you're testing that trials:

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